PROTOTYPING: Learning Through Doing

PROTOTYPING: Learning Through Doing

1. What these tools are for

   • Thinking by doing
   • Share with others
   • Maintaining user-centredness
   • Generating evidence

2. What is prototyping?

   • a way to generate new and better ideas • a way to help us move from abstract to concrete • a way to help us understand and improve an idea before implementation • a way of engaging a wide range of stakeholders to generate and validate ideas • a method useful throughout the whole design process • a method that can be applied to design challenges at different scales, from the small and technical to the large and complex. • a method that enables us to “fail earlier and often, to succeed sooner”

3. We can prototype

   • Relationships
     • Role-playing internet volunteer support role
   • Journeys and pathways
     • Storyboarding a new car hire service.
   • Communications
     • Testing the most motivating way to present information online, through paper exercises.
   • Objects and environments
     • Desktop prototyping with mothers to explore a new in-school healthy weight learning zone.

4. Prototyping is NOT

   • Piloting, time intensive, the same every time

5. Practising prototyping

   • Step 1: Form pairs
   • Step 2: With your pair read through the prototype and practice asking each other for feedback on the idea
   • Step 3: Share you storyboard! In your pair, find others to discuss your concept with. This may be people in your learning area, or perhaps others you know outside the organisation. You are seeking feedback to help you to refine and progress your idea. Ask your partner to observe the types of questions that generated the most insightful responses from your interviewee
   • Step 4. Feed back to the group. • What did you learn about the idea? • What did you learn about using a storyboard prototype? • What did you learn about this method of engagement?

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